UC Berkeley's: New Manager Boot Camp

For Newly Promoted Engineers and Scientists

Sample New Manager Boot Camp Details

• Session 1: Understanding your Challenges as a New Manager
• Session 2: Your Leadership Style
• Session 3: Dynamic Teams
• Session 4: Solutions to Management Challenges
• Session 5: Managing Direct Reports - the Use of Power and Influence
• Session 6: Leading Through Rapport
• Session 7: New Manager Boot Camp Wrap-up and final Q&A

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Day 1:

Session 1, 9:00-12:30: Understanding your Challenges as a New Manager
Dr. Homa Bahrami

In this session, you will have the opportunity to reflect on, and define, your personal challenges as a new manager. These may stem from your unique personality and leadership style, your team profile, your assigned priorities, or your organization's structure, culture and operating norms. We will use a small group breakout format to reflect on challenges faced by you and your colleagues, as new managers. We will use the outcome of this session to ensure that we can address your unique management challenges throughout the three days of the new manager training course.

Session 2, 1:30-5:00 Your Leadership Style
Jennifer A. Chatman

You may have been chosen as a leader because of your extraordinary individual contributions. Your challenge now is to redefine success in terms of the team’s effectiveness. This session of the new manager training program focuses on:

1. What you, as a leader, can do to enhance your team’s effectiveness
2. Understanding your leadership approach (your leadership style profile)
3. Adjusting your leadership approach to better implement your team’s objectives and execute your organization’s strategy

To do this, we start with an exercise that pushes you to ask and answer the question, "What is the unique added value of a leader?" The answer lies in accurately diagnosing situations (e.g., what are the people, resources, and requisite timing required to react to situations) and then developing a broad behavioral range so that you are positioned well to respond flexibly to the myriad of complex situations that will arise in your role as a manager. We then use various evaluation tools to assess your accuracy in understanding situations and your personal capability to use a range of behaviors to deal with those situations. The session concludes by addressing a current strategic challenge you have with your team and developing an action plan to modify your leadership style repertoire. We focus particularly on styles that help the team understand how its work contributes to larger organizational objectives.

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Day 2:

Session 3, 9:00-12.00: Dynamic Teams
Dr. Homa Bahrami

As a new manager, you may have inherited a team or you may have the opportunity to build a new team. Each situation presents unique challenges. In this session you will learn how to make your team as effective as possible. Topics include: team challenges and pain points, profiles of effective (and ineffective) teams, how to organize and lead multi-cultural, geo-distributed teams, and critical actions steps that can keep your team aligned and productive.

Session 4, 1:00-2:30: Solutions to Management Challenges
Facilitated Panel Discussion with High Tech and Life Science industry experts

A panel of experienced managers from different companies will join us to discuss how they deal with critical challenges and lessons learned from their experiences and mistakes. Panelists will reflect on what they learned as new managers and share experiences they developed over the years as more experienced managers; discussion topics include:

• Team leadership: How many people can you effectively manage?, how much time should you spend with your team? How do you guide your team without micro-managing?
• Time Management: How do you manage the time constraint of hiring and managing while still working on your own projects AND strategizing for the future?
• Hiring and Firing: How do you find good people and assess if they really are good? How do you get rid of ineffective people quickly, nicely, and without threats of lawsuit?
• Leading and Developing: How do you make your employees excited about their jobs, your team, the company? How do you manage difficult people? What do you do about conflicts between team members? How do you lead people who were your peers yesterday?

Session 5, 3:00-5:00: Managing Direct Reports - the Use of Power and Influence
Cameron Anderson

In this session of our new manager training, participants will learn how to manage their team effectively. Managerial positions provide formal authority over others but can also present obstacles to influencing their behavior. We will discuss these obstacles, how to overcome them, and how to influence your team members successfully.

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Day 3:

Session 6, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-11:45: Leading Through Rapport
Cort Worthington

This session focuses on leading through creating greater interpersonal rapport. We’ll focus on active listening, which transforms a passive behavior into an empowering set of communication tools. We’ll also examine interpersonal status behaviors, and how awareness of such behaviors can facilitate communication between yourself and those above and below you in the management chain.

Session 7, 11:45-12:30: New Manager Boot Camp Wrap-up and final Q&A
Dr. Homa Bahrami